In the New Jersey section of today’s New York Times, writer Kevin Coyne opened his article about the racial injustice that has been such a part of the American experience with :

“HOW do you measure the distance traveled by a nation that once believed one race of humans should hold dominion over another?”

WOW, powerful stuff. Now I have to read the rest of the article and hope that some others do too as the stories are a moving part of the American experience, reflections on things so wretching that it moves one to refect on so many things both personal and public. 4 years ago

The minute you settle for less than you deserve,you get even less than you settled for.

- Maureen Dowd 4 years ago

“In life we are often wiser for questioning our answers than answering our questions.”
- Noah ben Shea 4 years ago

“When people talk, listen completely.
Most people never listen.”
— Ernest Hemingway: 4 years ago

“You cannot depend on your eyes when
your imagination is out of focus.”
— Mark Twain 4 years ago

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“Thirty months ago, no one was talking about YouTube. Now, it’s a verb.” – Brad Adgate, the senior vice president for research at Horizon Media, a media buying firm in New York. 4 years ago

This new take on “neccesity is the mother of invention” and ya know, Paul Romer has something there.

Think about it, virtually everyone in the US has felt the increase in oil prices in some capacity. Sure, there are people who are doing without certain things in their daily routine, but for most of us, this time of upheaval is an opportunity to, well, seize opportunities.

In some part of the country, the number of people using mass transit and carpooling has increased to the point that traffic, and the dreaded traffic jam, has diminished. Not only can the people who out of neccessity must drive get places more quickly, but ambulances, and fire brigades, and other emergency responders can move about more freely.

The increase in food prices has forced some people to eat lower on the food chain which is actually healthier.

It’s easy to hang out the “Why Me” banner in times like these, but instead, hang out the “Why Not” banner! With energy prices going up, winter heating is sure to be more costly this year, so why not take advantage of long summer days to insulate your attic and weather strip the windows. Air travel is crazy expensive (and more crowded and filthier than ever) – so why not jump on line and do a little research on weekend getaways in your area; and don’t discount the fun of the local church carnival – as hokey as those things may be they are fun.

The only crisis in wasting a crisis, is missing all the opportunities it presents. 4 years ago

“You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.”
- Mary Tyler Moore 5 years ago

“Civil disobedience takes courage. Commenting anonymously does not.”

this post appeared in a thread on the New York Times website with regard to the day of disobedience in New York. It was signed but since I do not know the author I felt at odds with posting someone elses names if their intent was not to generate publicity for themselves. I just think its a damn good quote and way to conduct ourselves. 5 years ago

and yet, as soon as I added it to my list, my brain became devoid of favorite quotes (or at least ones that would be fitting for the newspaper). 5 years ago

“Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.”
- Frank Lloyd Wright 5 years ago

Sometimes fellow 43T-ers have the most brilliant quotes. Don’t ya think ? 5 years ago

Bookmanu just included this anonymous quote in a comment to one of my posts and I thought it important enough, even if it doesn’t make the Trib, that those of us who are blessed to live in the United States realize how our actions affect the rest of the world. Everything from the products we buy to what we decide to flush down the toilet affects someone somewhere else in the world. Sure, macro-politics like nuclear proliferation have a global impact, but its those seemingly little things we do like deciding to eat Sea Bass tonight (which is being overfished) that not only affects the environment, but also the generations old lifestyles of the people of Chile. 5 years ago

( one of those great Law of Attraction kind of quotes, don’t ya think?) 5 years ago

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

~ Nelson Mandela 5 years ago

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Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. – Martin Luther King Jr 5 years ago

“Discovering your self-worth will cause you to become rich in confidence. Making people with insufficent funds pass you by.”
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“Sometimes we are the only ones to hear the voice of instruction.”
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“It is when we become a genius that we finally are considered ordinary.”
_{Giovianni Ortonli}5 years ago

The pursuit of a passion can manifeast a dream into reality.
_{S.C. Williams}5 years ago

Fun quote:
“If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.”
— Andy Rooney

Words of wisdom:
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
— James Baldwin

Thanks to Felicia and Brittany for these quotes. 5 years ago

Fun quote:
“A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.”
— Mitch Hedberg

Words of wisdom:
“We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.”
— Anais Nin

Thanks to Kristyn and Felicia for these quotes. 5 years ago

Fun quote:
“All you really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”
— Lucy Van Pelt (Peanuts)

Words of wisdom:
“Life is so much more complicated when you aren’t doing good.”
— Thomas S. Monson

Thanks to MommaMichelle and Megan23 for these quotes. 5 years ago

Fun quote:
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
— Mark Twain

Words of wisdom:
“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh

Thanks to Kristyn and ellie257 for these quotes. 5 years ago

“Success means living the life of the heart.”
- Francis Ford Coppola 5 years ago

Fun quote:
“The older you get, the better you get, unless you’re a banana.”
—Rose, “The Golden Girls”

Words of wisdom:
“The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all.”
— Leo Buscaglia

Thanks to Kristyn and ellie257 for these quotes.

I picked the Buscaglia one, cuz chief editor here at work has the last name of Bascaglia. teehee. 5 years ago